Munich Biennale
The Munich Biennale is a music festival that is held every two years in Munich . The opera festival was founded in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze to perform new operas by young composers. The full title is “Munich Biennale for New Music Theater”.
history
Hans Werner Henze remembers the beginning of the festival: “The whole story began with the request from the (Munich) cultural advisor whether I would like to think about the design of a Munich city music festival of whatever kind. After a while, I suggested setting up something that had been missing so far, and something that is not available anywhere else in the world and yet is an urgent necessity: namely a place where young generation composers interested in theater can turn their ideas into reality could. ”This is how the Munich Biennale came about.
Henze directed the first four festivals, from 1988 to 1994, and established a process that the later festivals essentially followed. The world premieres of operas are complemented by introductions and additional concerts with works by the composers in order to familiarize the audience with their performances and their music.
The artistic director was Peter Ruzicka from 1996 to 2014 . He directed the 1996 festival together with Henze. Ruzicka expanded the spectrum, especially with multimedia . Less text-related works were performed under his direction than under Henze. In the festival year 2012 there was a cooperation with the Munich Adult Education Center in the form of seminars and workshops to intensify the mediation work and to give laypeople access to new music through educational offers.
In 2016 the two composers Daniel Ott and Manos Tsangaris took over the artistic direction of the Munich Biennale, succeeding Peter Ruzicka.
The operas
| premiere | composer | title | Librettist and source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1988 | UA | Detlev Glanert | Leyla and Medjnun | Aras Ören and Peter Schneider , based on the romantic epic Madschnūn Lailā by Nezāmi | |
| May 29, 1988 | UA | Karl Amadeus Hartmann | Five Little Operas (1928/29) | Erich Bormann | |
| 3rd June 1988 | UA | Gerd Kühr | Stallerhof | Franz Xaver Kroetz , after his play Stallerhof | |
| 4th June 1988 | UA | Adriana Hölszky | Bremen freedom | Thomas Körner , based on the play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder | |
| June 7, 1988 | UA | Andreas Lechner | The last Milkan | The composer | |
| June 11, 1988 | UA | Max Beckschäfer | The Trojan Peace | Herbert Rosendorfer , according to the well-known Greek myth | |
| June 16, 1988 | UA | Alessandro Sbordini | La Sirenetta | Libramente tratto da Andersen, HG Wells , Tomasi di Lampedusa | |
| 17th June 1988 | UA | Mark-Anthony Turnage | Greek | the composer and Jonathan Moore, based on the play by Steven Berkoff | |
| May 2, 1990 | UA | Jörg Widmann | Absences | Michael Rothert, Burkhard Stauber, Jörg Widmann | |
| May 10, 1990 | UA | Marco Stroppa | Dream about flying | ||
| May 11, 1990 | UA | Leroy Jenkins | The Mother of Three Sons | Ann T. Greene, based on the modern Afro-American fairy tale of the same name | |
| Apr. 26, 1990 | UA | András Hamary | Be quiet | José Vera Morales, after Tóték by István Örkény | |
| Apr 28, 1990 | UA | Wolfgang von Schweinitz | Patmos | DE Sattler , based on the Revelation of John in the translation by Martin Luther | |
| May 6, 1990 | UA | Hans-Jürgen from Bose | 63: Dream Palace | the composer, based on the novella by James Purdy | |
| May 14, 1990 | UA | Michèle Reverdy ( web ) | Le précepteur | Hans-Ulrich Treichel , after The Hofmeister by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz | |
| Apr 29, 1992 | UA | Jorge Liderman | Antigona Furiosa | the composer, based on the drama by Griselda Gambaro | |
| Apr 30, 1992 | UA | Rupert Bawden | Le Livre de Fauvel | The composer based on the novel Roman de Fauvel | |
| May 7, 1992 | Violeta Dinescu | Eréndira | Monika Rothmaier, based on the story The unbelievable and sad story of the simple-minded Eréndira and her heartless grandmother by Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| May 16, 1992 | UA | Gerhard Stäbler | Sin, fall, ax | Andreas Lechner , based on the drama Catherine Howard by Alexandre Dumas the Elder | |
| May 22, 1992 | Param Vir ( web ) | Broken Strings | David Rudkin, based on the Buddhist legend Guttil Jatak | ||
| May 22, 1992 | Param Vir | Snatched by the Gods | William Radice , based on the poem Debatar Gras by Rabindranath Thakur | ||
| May 27, 1992 | Giorgio Battistelli | Teorema | the composer, based loosely on the film Teorema - Geometry of Love by Pier Paolo Pasolini | ||
| May 1, 1994 | UA | Tania León ( web ) | Scourge of Hyacinths | the composer, based on the radio play by Wole Soyinka | |
| May 12, 1994 | UA | Paul Engel ( paulengel.de ) | The blue stone | Christine von Knesebeck | |
| May 19, 1994 | UA | Benedict Mason | Playing away | Howard Brenton | |
| Dec. 4, 1996 | UA | Michael Obst | Solaris | the composer, based on the novel Solaris by Stanisław Lem | |
| Dec 9, 1996 | UA | Hanna Kulenty | The Mother of Black-Winged Dreams | Paul Goodwin | |
| Apr 8, 1997 | UA | Moritz Eggert | Bright nights | Helmut Krausser , based on stories from the Arabian Nights and a chapter from Knut Hamsun's mysteries | |
| Apr 14, 1997 | UA | Roderick Watkins | The Juniper Tree | Patricia Debney, based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm | |
| Apr 19, 1998 | UA | Toshio Hosokawa | Vision of Lear | Tadashi Suzuki , based on his play The Tale of Lear | |
| Apr 21, 1998 | UA | Sandeep Bhagwati | Ramanujan | the composer, on the life of the Indian mathematician S. Ramanujan (1887–1920) | |
| Apr 25, 1998 | UA | Jan Müller-Wieland | Untitled comedy | the composer, based on Comedia sin título by Federico García Lorca | |
| Apr 16, 1999 | UA | Babette Koblenz | Research. About the substance of time | The composer | |
| Apr 19, 1999 | UA | Mauricio Sotelo ( web ) | De Amore | Peter Mussbach | |
| Apr 25, 1999 | UA | Vladimir Tarnopolski | When time overflows | Ralph Günther Mohnau | |
| May 4, 2000 | UA | Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf | Angelus Novus | ||
| May 10, 2000 | UA | Chaya Czernowin | Pnima ... inside | ||
| May 18, 2000 | UA | Jörn Arnecke, Sascha Lemke, Nicki Marinic, Arvid Ong, Sean Reed, Sebastian Sprenger | About women across borders | The composers | |
| Apr. 27, 2002 | UA | André Werner | Marlowe: The Jew from Malta | the composer, based on the play The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe | |
| May 3, 2002 | UA | Manfred Stahnke | Orpheus crystal | Simone Homem de Mello, based on the Orpheus myth | |
| May 4, 2002 | UA | Gerhard E. Winkler | Heptamerone | the composer, based on the stories of the same name by Margaret of Navarre | |
| May 9, 2002 | UA | Jörg Widmann | Monologues for two | Vera Linhartova, Jürgen Becker , Christian Morgenstern | |
| May 12, 2004 | UA | Johannes Maria Staud | Berenice | Durs Grünbein , after Edgar Allan Poe | |
| May 13, 2004 | UA | Qu Xiaosong | temptation | Wu Lan and Qu Xiaosong, based on a traditional Chinese template | |
| May 18, 2004 | UA | Vykintas Baltakas | Cantio | Sharon Lynn Joyce | |
| May 20, 2004 | UA | Mark Andre | "... 22.13 ..." | The composer | |
| May 25, 2004 | UA | Brian Ferneyhough | Shadowtime | Charles Bernstein | |
| May 5, 2006 | UA | Christoph Staude | WE | Hans-Georg Wegner , based on the novel WIR by Evgeny Samjatin | |
| May 9, 2006 | UA | Aureliano Cattaneo | The philosophy in the labyrinth | Edoardo Sanguineti , based on the myth of the Minotaur | |
| May 13, 2006 | UA | Alexandra Holtsch | Barcode | Cornel Franz | |
| May 18, 2006 | UA | José María Sánchez Verdú | GRAMMA | the composer | |
| Apr 17, 2008 | UA | Enno Poppe | Work food apartment | Marcel Beyer , based loosely on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | |
| Apr 18, 2008 | UA | Klaus Lang | Architecture of rain | after Noh Theater -Stück Shiga of Zeami Motokiyo | |
| Apr 22, 2008 | UA | Felix Leuschner , Peter Nikolaus , Eunyoung Esther Kim , Martin von Frantzius | there and away: 1. war without battle, 2. fear, 3. minute traces, 4. oranges | ||
| Apr 23, 2008 | UA | Carola Bauckholt | clairaudient | ||
| Apr 30, 2008 | UA | Jens Joneleit | Piero - end of the night | Michael Herrschel, based loosely on the novel Die Rote by Alfred Andersch | |
| Apr. 27, 2010 | UA | Philipp Maintz | Maldoror | Thomas Fiedler, based on Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont | |
| Apr 28, 2010 | UA | Marton Illés | The white princess | based on the first draft of the dramatic poem by Rainer Maria Rilke | |
| May 8, 2010 | UA | Klaus Schedl , Tato Taborda , Ludger Brümmer | Amazonas - musical theater in three parts: 1. Tilt, 2. The collapse of the sky, 3. Amazonas Conference | Roland Quitt , Peter Weibel | |
| May 9, 2010 | UA | Lin Wang | The source | the composer and Can Xue, based on a story by Can Xue | |
| May 3, 2012 | UA | Sarah Nemtsov | L'Absence | the composer, after Livre des Questions by Edmond Jabès | |
| May 5, 2012 | UA | Eunyoung Kim ( web ) | Mama Dolorosa | Yona Kim | |
| May 15, 2012 | UA | Leah Muir , Cathy van Eck , Inigo Giner Miranda , Abel Paúl , Yoav Pasovsky | A Game of Fives | ||
| May 16, 2012 | UA | Arnulf Herrmann ( web ) | water | Nico Bleutge (lyrics) | |
| May 7, 2014 | UA | Marko Nikodijevic | Vivier | Gunther Geltinger | |
| May 8, 2014 | UA | Samy Moussa ( web ) | Vastation | Toby Litt | |
| 17th May 2014 | UA | Dieter Schnebel | Utopias | ||
| May 22, 2014 | UA | Hector Parra | The sacrificed life | Marie NDiaye | |
| May 28, 2016 | UA | David Fennessy ( web ) | Sweat of the Sun | after »Conquering the Useless« by Werner Herzog | |
| May 28, 2016 | UA | Simon Steen-Andersen ( web ) | if this then that and now what | Steen-Andersen (lyrics) | |
| 5th June 2016 | UA | Genoel von Lilienstern ( web ) | Spears stone piano | composer |
meaning
The Munich Biennale gave many composers an early opportunity to present their works who are now recognized as opera composers, such as Hans-Jürgen von Bose , Violeta Dinescu , Detlev Glanert , Adriana Hölszky , Jens Joneleit , Toshio Hosokawa , Gerd Kühr and Mark- Anthony Turnage , with an emphasis on international exchange.
Web links
- Munich Biennale. Website 2016
- Composing for pure nature . In: Münchner Merkur , April 23, 2010
- Gerhard Rohde: Munich Biennale / Why all the effort? . In: FAZ , May 12, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ The Munich Biennale Festival
- ^ Archives of the first Biennale in 1988
- ^ Archives of the fifth biennial in 1996
- ↑ Handelsblatt of October 18, 2012, dual leadership for the Munich Biennale
- ↑ Dinescus Eréndira was created in collaboration with the Stuttgart State Opera , where it premiered on March 18, 1992
- ↑ a b Virs operas Broken Strings and Snatched by the Gods were created in collaboration with De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, where the world premiere took place on May 11, 1992
- ↑ Battistelli's Teorema was created in collaboration with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , where the world premiere took place on May 10, 1992 in the Teatro Comunale
- ↑ a b Provisional information for 2014 Munich Biennale , 25 Dec 2013